Portrait of a Woman
Artist
Samuel Shelley
(English, 1756-1808)
Date1794-1795
MediumWatercolor on ivory;
Half case with red leather inner liner
DimensionsFramed: 1 15/16 × 1 5/8 × 1/4 inches (4.92 × 4.13 × 0.64 cm)
Sight: 1 5/8 × 1 1/4 inches (4.13 × 3.18 cm)
Sight: 1 5/8 × 1 1/4 inches (4.13 × 3.18 cm)
Credit LineGift of Mr. and Mrs. John W. Starr and the Starr Foundation, Inc.
Object numberF58-60/126
InscribedInscribed on backing card: "S: Shelley. / 6 George street / Hanover Sq.r"
On View
Not on viewCollections
DescriptionPortrait miniature of a woman with powdered hair wearing a white gown before a brown background.Exhibition HistoryThe Starr Foundation Collection of Miniatures, The Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, December 8, 1972–January 14, 1973, no cat., no. 157, as Unknown Lady.
Mr. John W. (1905–2000) and Mrs. Martha Jane (1906–2011) Starr, Kansas City, MO, by 1958;
Their gift to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1958.
Martha Jane and John W. Starr, “Collecting Portrait Miniatures,” Antiques 80, no. 5 (November 1961): 440, (repro.), as Portrait of a Lady.
Ross E. Taggart, The Starr Collection of Miniatures in the William Rockhill Nelson Gallery (Kansas City, MO: Nelson Gallery-Atkins Museum, 1971), no. 157, p. 54, (repro.), as Unknown Lady.
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